The six weeks since my last post have been 100% year-of-awesome material. Well, unless you count the nasty case of shingles Mike came down with a week after my birthday. …
Port Vila
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We’ve rocked the awesome scale over the four-day Easter weekend—a four-day weekend that kicked off with my 40th birthday. This post is so not my deep and meaningful thoughts about …
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We did tick a box on the “year of awesome” list in February. Just scrapping in under the wire, we hit the beaches on a sparkling February 27th and headed …
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Dear friends, Today, it’s been six months since Cyclone Pam, and five months since the kids and I arrived here to face the mammoth task of unpacking, learning our new …
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It’s 6:30pm. By some miracle of miracles both kids are in bed. It’s dark, cold, and rainy outside. It feels like 10:00pm. I know many people are curious about what’s …
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I’ve thought about posting a couple of times in the last couple of weeks but everything here (and in my head) feels like such a disorganized mash-up of good and …
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You guys, we are so tired. So tired. I thought moving to Vanuatu would spawn a whole series of new blog posts. After all, novelty is often fuel for creativity …
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Want to know what the first full day in our new country was like? Here’s a peek at the nitty-gritty of moving to paradise… Woke up excited that we got …
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I don’t know quite where to start talking about what is going on with emergency response efforts in Vanuatu right now. I was literally sleeping in the middle of it …
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It’s a strange thing to arrive, for the first time, in a country that is destined to become your home. It all gets even weirder when that country is largely …
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I can’t believe it’s only been four days since I last talked to Mike, four days since the cyclone hit. It seems like weeks. I just had my first extended …
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Last night was horrendous. I’m quite sure it wasn’t as awful for me as it was for Mike and his colleagues as they bunkered down in a small room at …